Bookworm,
I am sorry but you twisted my statement I said APPARANTLY not flying a quadrantal, I did not say that anything had been BROKEN. The other aircraft appeared to be in straight and level flight for the few short seconds that I saw him and made no attempt at avoiding action so I would guess did not see me.
I was flying at FL45 heading 290.
I was not making a complaint about the other aircraft who could well have been climbing or decscending, I was merely making an observation about a near miss.
My point was that despite this near miss in the open FIR without radar it was still a miss.